Descartes doubted everything except one thing: "As I'm thinking, it is clear that there might not otherwise think." It was what is known as "methodical doubt, the doubt as a philosophical instrument used.
Then many people with more imagination than common sense began to doubt everything by habit. "As we know that the senses sometimes deceive us, we can not know if reality is real or a dream, the result of a drug or encantmiento some magical being. "For a long time this question was a real problem widespread epistemological . Until the fourteenth century, in which William of Ockham came with his knife.
Guillermo He stood in front of one of these philosophers I said before and drew his knife. Pointing said: "I'll give you a cut in the jugular and if the senses deceive us will not die" to what the threat did not respond more than cowardly fleeing.
We learned to distinguish the philosophers of and empty verbiage true philosophers.
Note 1: No philosopher was harmed during the making of this post. The author of this blog can not ensure that William of Ockham no more than a stab.
Note 2: This post is a dramatization of what really is the Ockham's razor, but who knows?
Note 3: Due to Ockham know that the universe is not as complicated nor as romantic as some charlatans tell us.
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